I know it’s only a part of their reasons for unionizing, but out of curiosity how many people here have actually seen their pay keep up with inflation this year? (8%+ without promotion or job switching). Survey of my friends points to basically no one.
My own employer, and many others, set their baseline salaries for each job title based off of industry payroll data they purchase from specialized consultancy firms. These datasets do not seem to have kept up with inflation, nor do they seem to have kept up with market rates I’ve seen in my own field (technical security).
I suspect this may be one of several drivers to all the employee movement we’ve been seeing in the past couple of years.
I think it sort of depend on how you think about it. The argument is that your pay inflated already and it’s the market that is catching up, potentially overshooting. So I might ask did your last few years of raises beat it match inflation?
In the sf Metro Area from 2016 till now I watched my wage double, pre stock. There is no way that wasn’t inflation, especially being at the later stages of my career.
Inflation is a slur for wages. They're just based on that. The computer and the car are bullshit things to get leaf workers to take pay cuts and pitiful raises. And the basket doesn't actually expand the percentage alloted to a need when that need becomes more expensive, talking food medicine (commonly and wrongly called healthcare) housing and education. It's a stupid point system, OK every point system is stupid in some way, by design, point systems are for when you don't want to respect the problem you're trying to solve and want people to cooperate--but not with a high degree of integrity, the guy designing the point system took the task on almost always with the aim of making some cozy little loopholes for himself--that's when you get a point system. They're stupid because people enjoy stupid point systems, they find them gratifying and entertaining, they're like a board game in fact. But inflation is just not only a stupid point system, it's just fucking cruel too, it's all set up to harm leaf workers. It pretends there's another layer to a simple fact: that when a man is anointed a billionaire, he doesn't measure anything in dollars anymore, he measures it in how low he can get people to go in massive numbers. That's why productivity went up but wages stagnated, and actually Americans are taking education super seriously, high schoolers study like fuck to get into elite colleges, and of course productivity is a McDonald's marketing term for education, you can't get people to make more wealth without making them smarter, meaning educate them. And productivity makes it sound like the MBA should get the credit, the money and the glory, for niggling people in the most cowardly ways.
One example: so McDonalds got sued for the hot coffee right? Well in order to make the stigmatization of the scalded sweet old lady who pissed them off for refusing to let them fuck her life up in exchange for a mouthful of ash (they offered her $800 for expensive and permanently painful genital skin grafts), in order to make her look like a complete bitch per the PR team's mission statements, like to make the MBAs happy, there was a media blackout on people getting burned in the shower.
It happens in Lolita, the little girl flushes the toilet while the pederast (played by Jack Nicholson) is in the shower, and the cold water is diverted into the toilet temporarily, scalding Jack Nicholson and making him scream. A classic prank. He didn't scream because he was a pervert, in fact he screamed because we've all been there and when a shower is too hot that's no joke you gotta react right away! You can't look at the clock to know when you've been in hot water too long anymore than you need to calculate the a car's distance speed and acceleration to know if you're going to get hit, dude don't think, FUCK FUCK FUCK react! Or like when cooking with boiling water, you gotta time it to the tenth of a second like it's a Jujutsu choke hold, you gotta pull your fingers out of that scald, that motherfucking harmful scald, last second if you don't want to end up with blisters on your fingers for ten days. Oh so you do in fact remember blisters on your fingers from getting scalded? Getting brainwashed is perfectly understandable, but getting spine-washed? And you realize you never hear that word scalded, not even on the SAT in fact, the media blackout reaches even the standardized tests, media said "burned" specifically because they found that triggered focus group's incredulity, water doesn't burn, fire burns, and water puts out fire, McDonalds' is the victim.
But it does scald, so they take that word out of the vocabulary. And that's where the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis comes in, "when there's absolutely no choice" meaning whenever the torturer, Jorge, feels like it, him and his fellow torturers reach into your brain to black shit out.[1] Being super literal here. Blacking shit out with blackouts (amnestic drugs, aka roofies, but clinical-grade, not the date-rape variety because with these the rapist doesn't even bother with a date), the term "blackouts" were blacked out when I was blacked out, I had to flashback on the concept of flashbacks, one memory I recovered a decade later was that "amnesia is never retrograde like in Hollywood" according to wikipedia, proving the opposite, amnesia is exactly as pornographic as in Hollywood, like in Memento, that movie was blacked out too. Clockwork Orange, blacked out, in layers, a friend called Sam Genecin witnessed me lashing on personality conditioning part, this was last year, and the blackout was 2009. No recall of Total Recall, itself about memory manipulation. They lobotomized everything related to "lobotomy" including a magic card called "Lobotomy" which I couldn't recall like I normally would, and other lobotomies were also blacked out.
If you read my comments I talk about how that concept censored in my own nervous system according to its own logic, and was finally flashed on, and instantly proving itself true, so it's a law now. I have a unique memory that never forgets definitions, I was the best student in Chile in my year by some definitions (best SATs, best college results) up until the lobotomy, I only forgot definitions due to lobotomy, and not permanently, so when I flash on a concept I haven't thought of since then, I get a special sensation, and I can write down the date and time to the minute. Then I can say exactly how long after the amnestic torture began that concept was censored (for another example, Christianity was also completely censored), so just reply with how much you want to bet on it being true, I dare you to make me a bet, make it worth my while. At any rate, it's the Sapir-Whorf law.
So in order to get people to forget what their spine thinks about hot water, media blackout. No jokes like that anymore, Simpson characters never got burned in the shower after 93, (I think there was one in the 89-92 period because in my memories Homer is drawn the old way and screams like the early voice actors, never again), no scalding anywhere, ever. Showers became these heavenly places, like really soothing and perfect, nothing bad ever happened in there, in prisons nothing bad could happen in a shower except the obligatory rape but rape notwithstanding they always had better showers in every goddamn prison on television than every five-star hotel I've ever gone to. And people always singing in the shower, in prison too. They gave showers a lot of extra airtime with no jokes, for decades. And nobody ever waiting for the temperature of the shower to adjust before getting in, nobody ever gets into a shower, only out of one. And media absolutely had the incestuousness to carry this out in the 90s and today it very much still does. There's tons of media blackouts. All to make a wonderful righteous old woman with the gall to sue a MacDonald's, with perfect moral authority, for a meaningless amount MacDonald's always lied about in its love of being a bitchvictim (they always said one million dollars instead of the amount she sued for and received, $600,000, without fail), to make that American saint look like a total greedy bitch for retaliating against a company she should have recognized as having the right to spite her. They spited her. And she died of shame.
[1] Although in fairness, out of the desire my torturer does not share, of being accurate and fair in my accusations, "scald" was...I think forgotten for other reasons, it's just a really rare word...or was it blacked out? Gotta check my notes, I thought it wasn't when I started writing this footnote but now who knows.
OK I'm considering a TL;DR. If you ask for it, I think I can write one. Yeah wall of text, what do you think I should do? Shorter paragraphs? Thing is it has to be a wall of text because my whole life since getting into college is on my comments section, I'm accountable to the bitchvictim media for all of my comments. I have to split quotable, meaning easy to cherry-pick, phrases so they can't get the parts they want without including the part, the meaning, that they really really hate. I have to write defensively, walls of text, those walls of text are defensive walls, my comments as a whole are like a fort and the walls of text are its walls, it has to be fortified by highly technical punctuation/phraseology. It's like Paul Graham said, he gets port scanned by forum trolls.
It's a whole art to it, free speech in forums. I want to develop the art form beyond its current state, like treat Hacker News like a forum for essayists, every comment an essay, but I am stuck thinking how.
The crazy thing in my view is despite my comment history containing, and acting as one of the precious few records of, my lobotomy, I actually have done a pretty good job--this is just me talking here, my perception--of not saying stupid shit that will fuck my life up. There are two comments that are favorable of Pinochet, but I consider that excusable because the torture, the lobotomy (the medical thing they did meets both criteria according to the US Federal Codes), can in fact make you think false things, and that is why those two comments were made. But overall, I think holding consistency as the highest fundamental moral value just transforms your bullshit into this strange thing, like let's think of a name for it, maybe not-bullshit, nonbullshit, no that's too long..."truth" yeah that's a good made-up word, a bullshit thing that sometimes looks like the only thing that isn't bullshit, and it's good because the concept of truth is tightly related to broadcasting, consensus, witness, and belief.
Sometimes I can write single sentence paragraphs too.
I see, I read some of your other comments, and they seem unhinged quite frankly speaking. Please seek help, it seems that you think people are out to get you ("I'm accountable to the bitchvictim media for all of my comments"..."so they can't get the parts they want without including the part, the meaning, that they really really hate") when I doubt anyone actually cares.
Yeah these last two days especially, can't argue there. But if it were my fault, I'd apologize.
> Please seek help, it seems that you think people are out to get you
Yeah I should amend those comments, went a little too far there. Although you talk about seeking help like it's going to dawn on me I just might be a little off. No shit, work on your reading comprehension, those walls of text? Top to bottom, left to right. Yeah am in fact a bit off, what did you expect would happen when malpracticed on my brain? You know malpractice on a bone harms the bone and it needs more care later, stomach same thing, like please assure me you're a doctor for you to be giving me medical advice?
You can't just give yourself a smug little pat on the back for telling me to seek help as though that will fix my wretched life, it's not automatic, there's a whole art to actually obtaining psychiatric care that isn't designed to harm you. 60% of psychs are antagonistic, I'd say. And the psych ward? I'm a fish in the water in there, know the protocols, know the law, know the laws that apply and the ones that should but that you just have to let go.
I spend a huge percentage of my income on psychiatric care, and it can't just be any doctor, with a carefully chosen doctor, of whom I demand the absolute best care, highly tailored. It's my highest priority in my budget, you realize, because if my mind is out of commission I'm screwed, whereas if I'm strong in my skull I can solve all my problems singlehandedly?
Dude you think it's a simple matter of calling a hotline? Oh oh, just google the number! The contempt is unbelievable, if you wound up in a psych ward you'd never get out, never get respect from the staff, get drugged with whatever was in the medicine cabinet when you consented the least, never get any insights into working with the system and also plain working the system.
> I doubt anyone actually cares
That would be a dream come true! I got for sure harassed, arguably persecuted, I talked to a lawyer about it at length, like 26 hours ago in a Lider supermarket on Merced in Santiago Centro that accused me of not paying but refused to look at my receipt. 6 guards, insincere apologies, I made them cut the shit real fast. Before that a few weeks ago and in that case told I would be hunted down and gutted like a fish for telling some street urchins their speaker was too loud, for which they fought me in front of 100 witnesses, being righteous brings problems, I have witnesses. Do you want to talk to any of my witnesses, see any of my proof? You don't, you don't. Like hit and run, you want to give advice that makes you look good--to someone--for giving it, but never take responsibility for your words and actions and their consequences. Then you'd get a wall of text.
And about that bitchvictim media you asked about--you answered your own questions.
And I apologize for what I said to you, it's just that--for reasons given--I become defensive when talking about my psychiatric health. I am going to keep being defensive, but what will change is reevaluating afterward. So what I'm doing right now.
Because we're talking about psychiatry, which includes lobotomy and roofies, I simply must shoot first and ask questions later. That is how I must react. But at some point I must still get around to the questions, and try to rectify mistakes.
You reacted favorably, and did what the culture we're in told you to do.
I apologize.
EDIT: And you know what? After April 2009, I found no doctor willing to treat me for the lobotomy. They were all afraid of angering my lobotomist. So I had to treat myself, and did so with supplements and prescribed substances. So the organ is OK again. And while I didn't have to learn how to walk again, I evidently need to learn how to talk again. Baby steps.
No worries. I actually favorited your comment above [0] because it really hits the nail on the head from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet.
> You can't just give yourself a smug little pat on the back for telling me to seek help as though that will fix my wretched life, it's not automatic, there's a whole art to actually obtaining psychiatric care that isn't designed to harm you.
> Dude you think it's a simple matter of calling a hotline? Oh oh, just google the number! The contempt is unbelievable, if you wound up in a psych ward you'd never get out, never get respect from the staff, get drugged with whatever was in the medicine cabinet when you consented the least, never get any insights into working with the system and also plain working the system.
You are exactly right. People telling others to simply "seek help" is condescending in a way. They might mean well but really it's just lip service, most who say this don't really care whether someone actually gets help, it's more of a way to simply remain civil, or in the worst case, to virtue signal that they want to help, even if in actuality they don't.
I see this all the time on the internet and real life, it's simply not sincere most of the time.
You know what, Christianity says to bless people that curse you, or at least consider what people criticizing you say especially if you think they're against you. I thought you were more adversarial before than now that I read your reply...
Honestly I can barely read what I wrote. I can but barely. I really like it but it's not suited for most readers, it's good for my future self but that's it.
The volume of ideas is fine. It's fine to write extensively.
But the format is bad, everything's too long. Posts are too long, 1400 characters is an essay, way too long. Then, paragraphs are too long, walls of text are huge. Then, sentences are too long, should be fewer clauses.
So more "reply" button pushes per hour of writing for more shorter posts, more returns for paragraphs, and more periods for sentences.
Maybe more editing too, if I'm going to write something for others maybe proofread.
How does a company like McDonalds scale up the effort required to remove the concept of scalding liquid from the culture? Does every corporation have its own team to manage it? Are there 3rd party brokerages they can contact to manage it? Is there just a private listserv they can email to get the word out to the media? Is all of this taught in business or public relations school, or must participants be initiated into a gentlemen’s agreement by less visible means?
Well the media is like six companies, you just tell some producers hey no hot shower jokes, nobody can get burned in the shower, no boiling water. And it was a push from all corporate America to claim bitchvictimhood, the whole Fortune 500 and even Fortune 5000000 wanted to see if they could...just shut off...this pesky "justice" thing.
Like Abbott, for instance, like finally a family succeeded in having a baby, so excited, well and the mother had bipolarity, so she took Depakote...and the baby was born without a nervous skull or brain. So then Abbott is like "our profits from selling poison to pregnant woman need to be greater than the cost of them suing for losing a child" so that means the suits have to be smaller right? Media blackout again, Abbott has been "caught" with the baby-skull thing (look up a picture!) like every three years it gets into the news and they go right back doing it.
In fact I would read a lot of Hacker News in the torture ward, this was March 29 to June...6 I think? The torture lasted until April 26 I forensically concluded. Well no that can't be right, they'd do the roofie-all-day Tuesday-today, Thursday-tomorrow thing more times than that for sure for "fine-tuning" and erasing more pesky memories, but back to the point, there was internet access, and I read this forum, and I found an article on the New York Times about how depakote poisoned pregnant woman. The head torturer was really surprised, he had prescribed me that drug the previous year and forced me to take it, poisoned me with it and given me seizures, and I had found it was bad. He thought he had things locked down better than that.
It’s concerning that my thinking is compartmentalized enough, that although I consider myself acutely aware of media consolidation, it didn’t enter my hypotheses.
By “roofies” do you mean Haldol? Or is there another one. I think there’d be a scandal if people truly understood from first-hand experience what that abomination does to a human being.
Oh is Haldol a roofie? That makes sense it is one, well first off in the ward it's not like you have litmus tests to see if what they give you is what they say they give you.
No the roofies were CIA level shit, erase you retroactively, completely...well I don't know I forensically determined I got cocktails of roofies, plus electroshock as a roofie...but whether they were injected or swallowed or sublingual or applied through my skin or a suppository or inhaled as a gas or used with electrical contacts, your guess is better than mine. There's "black" zones (actually the color of transparent) with no information obtained, ever. Nothing. Never gotten one second back.
Assuming you don't get a salary raise every year, and if you do, also good for you :-) but the critical factor here is, your purchasing basket of course and the percentage from each item, and of course the rate of inflation on each item.
For example, Energy Cummulative inflation is at 32% just for the last 12 months.
If you did not get a raise in the last 3 years, then with food at 12% every twelve months I am not far from the estimate. Now food is normally not a big percentage of a household costs but for example housing, as in rent for persons who rent and don't have a mortgage.
If a big percentage of your costs are housing and you had to move, or for example will have to move in the next 12 months, you might find housing costs like rent on a reasonable place, increased more than that.
Can you share your source for the energy cumulative inflation number? I'm looking at "urban consumers all items in us cities average" on the st louis fed website and it's giving me 265->290, which is a fair bit short of 32%.
"The energy index rose 32.0 percent over the last year, and the food index increased 8.8 percent, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1981."
"The statistics office also highlights rising energy and fuel prices, revealing that gas prices increased by 53 percent and electricity prices by 74,9 percent between November 2020 and November 2021."
Oh, I see. You're just citing the slices that have grown by the most, and therefore concluding that a 41% raise is a loss of purchasing power. This is not a valid method to compute purchasing power, nor a reasonable basis for asserting that someone who got a 41% raise in one year lost purchasing power.
Well it depends on how much each of the slices is part of the overall basket.
As you probably seen from one of the references, if rent costs increased 40% in most US cities and that represent a major part of a household costs, the fact food
who is normally a small part of household cost "only" increased 8% is of little consolation.
Of course the comment was made without understanding the individual household scenario of xxpor. But the overall argument that, what would normally be considered a very high salary increase, means for some households nowadays,
a real loss of purchasing power, I would argue, it still stands.
The baseline belief would be that their cost mix is about the average, which is up a little more than ten percent. But you flatly asserted that they had lost purchasing power. This is unlikely. You should not make such sweeping statements without first identifying some rational basis for them.
I think you missed the gist of the comment, so I am not sure I will be able to clarify further, but I will try one last time.
A salary raise of around 40%, is an outlier for most "at will employees". Maybe with the exception of when transferring jobs. For the composition of expenses of most households, energy, transport and housing, are some of the biggest part of most households.
With rent costs increasing in the 40 to 45%, energy in the 30 to 35%, and other costs in similar ranges, AND still increasing, what normally would be a
great salary increase is supposed to be diluted in the current inflation figures. These are STILL a up trending direction ( Can hardly wait for the April figures)
I provided the data to support it, and you seemed focused on the fact I did not ask xxpor to layout his private life, before making the comment? :-)
For most families in the US and Europe salary increases in the 35% to 40%, still mean loss of purchasing power if you take an analysis looking at a the last 3 years and the next 3 years. Assuming that is a one off event every 3 or 4 years.
With the current increases, even that type of salary change would be already diluted.
That is what the highest inflation of the last 40 years means, and that was the gist of the comment.
European reference: "Strongest inflation in almost 40 years"
I have a fixed rate mortgage and an all electric house, including an electric vehicle. That electricity is ~95% from hydropower.
The only real inflation I've seen is in food (which is a trivial part of my budget), electronics, and "house services" like electricians or plumbers, which I 99% DIY anyway.
Not only did my pay change not match inflation this year, but my overall income is lower now since I am now salary based position instead of hourly, but I end up working more than 40 hours a week due to degradation of our company and rapidly losing talent due to paying everyone well below industry average. I might technically make more per hour, but now I don't get any overtime like before.
The replacements for the talent leaving are way under qualified and even if they were qualified, we still wouldn't have enough people to handle things adequately beyond putting out fires.
I keep an eye on my finances. At this point, my net monthly income is breaking even only accounting for planned, repeatable, or necessary costs. When rent contract renews later this year, my rent will increase by over $1000/mo. With how the economics of the next couple of years looks like, I'm pretty stressed out.
My manager says I'm sadly at the top of the pay grade scale for our department and it can only change year over year by at most 10%. He says he wished it were different but it's all he can do. If nothing were to change for years, I would never reach close to industry average for this position for my area, which is rapidly getting more expensive in the past few years.
I've been trying for several months now. My ex-co-workers and close friends have been lucky to get jobs at MANGA companies, even referring me cause I was their technical senior. My luck has not been as good though. Just gotta keep trying I guess.
What do you do? And what's been the reason for the bad luck? If it's a badly done resume, or other such problem, that could be easily fixed, but if it's something else, it might be harder.
I'm a Senior Systems Administrator and team manager in the NOC for a multi-site Data Center company.
I've gotten to the final round of interviews with several companies but they chose someone else instead in each case. IMO just a case of luck and timing with someone nudging me out or someone getting the position before my interview series is finished. Half of those companies reached out to me with recruiter themselves. I wouldn't say my resume is amazingly, but it's not preventing me from getting into interviews. I'm also not applying to a lot of different places or a variety of positions. I've been pretty selective for positions or companies that match what I'm interesting in doing and their work culture.
